FUTURE LEGISLATION TO PROVIDE FOR PHASE A AND PHASE B OF ENGROSS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R003300190007-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 24, 1952
• Content Type: MF

ADDRESS OFFICIAL C* tol,edFor Release 2006/03/17 : CIA-RDP80R01731 R003300190007-3
THE DIRECTOR' OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRAT?CY BOARD
WASHINGTON 25. PSYCHOLOGICAL StRATEGY BOARD
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MEMORANDUM FOR MEMBERS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STRATEGY BOARD
SUBJECT: Future Legislation to Provide for Phase A and Phase B
of Engross
The Bureau of the Budget has requested the Directorts comments
on a legislative proposal entitled the "Special Migration Act of
1952", This draft bill pertains to the immigration of surplus
peoples from Europe and the utilization and disposition of escapees
from behind the Iron Curtain.
The position of the Executive Branch regarding legislation
covering the utilization and disposition of Iron Curtain escapees
is of great importance to the Board. The planning already completed
in Phase A of Engross and that under way in Phase B of Engross is
contingent upon legislative authorization and appropriations to carry
out recommended programs, Since it is my understanding that there is
a difference of opinion among the member agencies of the Board as
to the most appropriate manner of providing this legislative authori-
zation, I wish to suggest to the Board a position which the Director
might take in response to the Bureauts request, with the hope that
this position can be supported by the members, This position is set
forth in Attachment As,
My understanding of the relevant facts is as follows:
(a) In the recent hearings on the Phase A program before
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Committee made
it clear that it was opposed to the financing of the
Phase A program under the Kersten Amendment, if there were
other possible sources of authority and funds, When
informed that there were none, the Committee agreed to
the use of NSA funds under the authority of the Kersten
Amendment, but, in so doing, urged that language be pre-
pared to carry this program forward in the future elsewhere
in the Mutual Security Act for 1952.
(b) Title I of the draft bill, prepared by the Bureau of the
Budget, is concerned with immigration matters, Title II,
which is concerned with escapee matters, is in alterna-
tive forms. Under the first, the reception, supplemental
care, resettlement, and education and training of escapees
is authorized with the provision that this program will
be carried out under relevant provisions of the Mutual
NSC review(s) completed.
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Security Act. Under the seconds these same programs are
authorized to be carried out under the provisions of the
proposed bill with funds appropriated therefor.
(c) The Director of Mutual Security has been requested by the
House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee to provide language to be included
in the Committee Reports on the hearings on the Mutual
Security Act; this., in order to establish legislative
history interpreting the intent of the Kersten Amendment,
(d) Although there appears to be unanimous interdepartmental
agreement on the desirability of leaving the Kersten Amend.
ment language unchanged in the new Mutual Security Act., the
following positions have been taken as to the legislative
means of providing for Phase A activities of Engross and
those Phase B activities which would not be related to
the incorporation of escapees into military units:
(1) Provide legislative history through the Committee
Reports., indicating that the clear intent of Congress
is that funds derived from the authority of the
Kersten Amendment be expended to finance the Phase
A program and non-.military aspects of the Phase B
program during the next year.
(2) Provide new language in a separate section of the
Mutual Security Act to authorize Phase A and non*4
military aspects of Phase B programs,
(3) Authorize the carrying out of these programs under
Title II of the proposed Bureau of the Budget bill
with funds to be appropriated therefor,
I am inclined to feel that the best solution is the second alternaw
tive listed above and recommend to the Board that it agree to support
this alternative as set forth in the attached draft letter to the
Bureau of the Budgets
Raymond B. Allen
Director
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